Perseverance Finds Mars Dust Small Enough to Reach Astronauts’ Bloodstreams
One hundred to 200 nanometers: That is the estimated diameter of the smallest Martian dust particles identified using measurements from…
Aerospace & Spaceflight
NASA Seeks Industry Plan to Save Hubble Before 2033 Reentry
Hubble is still healthy and heavily oversubscribed, yet the telescope is running out of orbital lifetime. NASA said in an…
NASA’s Starship Moon Plan Needs Two Refueling Stages, Launch Count Unsettled
NASA’s proposed Starship architecture for the first crewed Artemis lunar landing depends on two orbital refueling stages, yet the agency…
Boeing Puts SpaceX Network on Nine C-17s; Contracts Cover 19
Boeing technicians at Port San Antonio have finished installing SpaceX’s Starshield satellite connection on nine U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster…
Reflect Orbital Wins Test-Satellite Approval as 50,000-Mirror Plan Could Brighten Night Sky
Reflect Orbital has cleared a regulatory step toward putting a mirror in orbit, but the light would not necessarily stay…
SpaceX Selects Qualcomm for 2027 5G Buildout Across Tens of Thousands of Sites
SpaceX has selected Qualcomm technology for the terrestrial side of Starlink Mobile, with equipment installation scheduled to begin across tens…
China Upgrades J-20 Stealth Fighters to Coordinate Drones and Aircraft
China is expanding its J-20 stealth fighter from a single-aircraft combat platform into the center of a wider airborne network….
Navy Super Hornet Flies With Two Blackbeard Hypersonic Missiles, Goal Is Four
A U.S. Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornet has completed a developmental flight carrying two Blackbeard hypersonic test missiles, moving the proposed…
Unauthorized Private-Jet Takeoff Sends Delta Flight Around at 100 Feet
A Delta Connection jet abandoned its landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport at roughly 100 feet above the runway after…
Navy’s E-6 Trails Five Miles of Wire to Reach Submarines as Replacement Arrives
A wire roughly five miles long unspools behind the Navy’s Boeing E-6 Mercury while the aircraft flies a carefully controlled…
NASA Restores Voyager 1 Contact After Offline Thruster Group Triggers Backup Switch
NASA has restored contact with Voyager 1 after an offline thruster group prompted the nearly five-decade-old spacecraft to switch automatically…
Lockheed Martin Shows Full-Size Top Gun Darkstar, a Nonflying Mach 10 Mockup
Lockheed Martin’s Darkstar has the dimensions and carefully resolved shape of an aircraft built for extreme speed. It also has…
Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey Finds 2,100 Galaxies, Raising Census to 3,680
Two thousand one hundred galaxies have been added to the census of the Virgo Cluster, one of the nearest and…
Air Force Recovers 2,200-Pound-Capacity Starfall Capsule After Pacific Splashdown
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched military meals, bottled water, spare batteries and other representative supplies inside a return capsule built…
Russia Reportedly Lost 13 Military Aircraft in One Month
Russia reportedly lost 13 military aircraft between September 29 and October 30, 2026, a concentrated run of airfield losses and…
British Carrier F-35Bs Join Norwegian Jets for First Six-Fighter B-52 Escort
Six British and Norwegian F-35 fighters assembled around a US Air Force B-52 over the Norwegian Sea on October 24,…
United CEO Says Boom Overture Will Miss Its 2029 Flight Goal
The airline most likely to put Boom Supersonic’s Overture into passenger service now says the jet will miss its stated…
U.S. F-16s Launch From Remote Aleutian Airfield for North American Defense
U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons launched from an unexpectedly remote point on North America’s air-defense map on October 25:…